Pulling out of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy looks like the BCCI’s last resort to stop the ICC from abolishing the Big Three Model of the game when the two-day board meeting of the ICC starts in Dubai on Friday (February 3).

As per the Big Three model, which was proposed by the then BCCI president N Srinivasan in 2014, three countries – India, England and Australia – should get the major chunk of ICC’s revenue as they are the major contributors of ICC’s revenues. Srinivasan suggested revenue be divided as per the country’s contribution to ICC’s purse, which means India should get 20.3%, England 4.4% and Australia 2.7%.

Abolishing the Big Three Model will result in huge financial loss for the BCCI and with the cricket board in turmoil following the appointment of new administrators, it is very much likely that the ICC will be able to go ahead with their plans in the meeting.

Supreme Court-appointed administrator Vikram Limaye along with BCCI secretary Amitabh Chaudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary will represent the Indian board in the meeting but it’ll not make much of a difference since all agendas of the meeting were put in place long ago at the ICC’s previous meetings in 2016.

And the only way for the BCCI to stop the apex body of the game from introducing the new policies is to pull out of the Champions Trophy.

As quoted in Cricbuzz, an ex-administrator said:

“Should India decide to pull out of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy in June scheduled just before the ICC annual conference the ICC will not survive the financial onslaught such a move will potentially unleash. That’s the only way.”

Meanwhile, apart from taking a decision on new financial policies, the ICC will also consider giving Test status to Ireland and Afghanistan. Another topic that is set to be discussed in the two-day meeting is holding one ICC tournament every year alongside qualification tournaments for World T20.